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. 2021 Jun 26:11:03083.
doi: 10.7189/jogh.11.03083.

Challenges facing COVID-19 vaccination in India: Lessons from the initial vaccine rollout

Abhishek Pandey  1 , Pratha Sah  1 , Seyed M Moghadas  2 , Sandip Mandal  3 , Sandip Banerjee  4 , Peter J Hotez  5 , Alison P Galvani  1
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Challenges facing COVID-19 vaccination in India: Lessons from the initial vaccine rollout

Abhishek Pandey et al. J Glob Health. .
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Competing interests: The authors completed the ICMJE Unified Competing Interest form (available upon request from the corresponding author) and declare no conflicts of interest.

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Figure 1
Phase 1 vaccine rollout in India. Percentage of eligible individuals that (A) registered for vaccination and (B) received at least the first dose of vaccine by February 28, 2021. We chose February 28, 2021 as the end time point because Phase II vaccinations started on March 1, 2021. We calculated the state-level number of eligible individuals by using data on the number of health care and frontline workers [3-5], and normalizing the total eligible across states so that the national total added up to the target of 30 million. (C) Comparison of percentage registered and vaccinated across states. Dashed lines indicate national averages – 35.44% vaccinated (horizontal dashed line) and 58.06% registered (vertical dashed line) of those eligible for Phase I vaccination by February 28, 2021. Point size is proportional to the number of active COVID-19 cases in the state on February 27, 2021.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Association between percentage vaccinated with at least one dose and (A) number of eligible individuals per capita and (B) number of vaccination sites per eligible individual. The solid line is the regression line and the shaded area represents the 95% confidence interval. Point size is proportional to the number of active COVID-19 cases in the state on February 27, 2021.
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